Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 1979

• Abe, Amy — I. Structural Analysis Using ¹⁵N NMR Spectroscopy II. An Investigation of the Interaction of Grignard Reagents with Mesityl Ketones
• Abeyaratne, Rohan Chandra — Discontinuous Deformation Gradients in Plane Finite Elastostatics of Incompressible Materials. (I) General Considerations. (II) An Example
• Allison, Judith Lee — An Investigation into the Bonding of Copper(I) Macrocycles to Fifth Ligands
• Armstrong, David Lee — The Kinetics of Curare Action and Restricted Diffusion within the Synaptic Cleft of Motor Nerve Terminals on Frog Skeletal Muscle
• Au Yeung, John Chen Wei — Phase Conjugate Optics and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Optical Fibers
• Ayres, Ronald Frederick — A Language Processor and a Sample Language
• Baillargeon, David Joseph — Oxy Anion-Accelerated Rearrangements
• Baldridge, Warren Scott — Petrology and Petrogenesis of Basaltic Rocks and Their Inclusions: Studies from the Rio Grande Rift, the Roman Comagmatic Province, and Oceanus Procellarum
• Barrois, Bertrand C. — Non-Perturbative Effects in Dense Quark Matter
• Beck, James Leslie — Determining Models of Structures from Earthquake Records
• Bencala, Kenneth Edward — I. Linear Distributed Parameter Filtering: Observation Processes and Boundary Conditions for Engineering Systems. II. Statistical Analysis of Air Pollutant Observations and Model Predictions
• Best, John Stewart — Schottky Barriers on Compound Semiconductors: I. HgSe Highly Electronegative Contacts. II. Au Schottky Barriers on n-Ga₁₋ₓA1ₓAs
• Binger, Brian Robert — Essays in Forward Markets and the Uranium Industry
• Blankenhorn, Elizabeth Peters — Immunogenetic Studies of the Mouse and the Rat
• Bond, John Richard — Neutrino Production and Transport during Gravitational Collapse
• Breidenthal, Robert Edward — A Chemically Reacting, Turbulent Shear Layer
• Burum, Douglas Peter — Nuclear Spin Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Pulsed NMR in Solids
• Butler, Rhett Giffen — Seismological Studies Using Observed and Synthetic Waveforms
• Campbell, Neville Ray — Pushing up in Finite Groups
• Carter, Boyd Jay — The Substitution Kinetics and Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy of Some Molybdenum and Tungsten Bis-Dinitrogen Complexes
• Caves, Carlton Morris — Theoretical Investigations of Experimental Gravitation
• Chan, Chi Ming — A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Surface Structures and Gas-Surface Interactions
• Chen Charpentier, Benito Miguel — Steady Capillary-Gravity Waves on Deep Water
• Chomyn, Anne — Studies on Protein Synthesis after Heat Shock in Drosophila melanogaster
• Chung, Wai-Ying — Part I: Variation of Seismic Source Parameters and Stress Drop within a Descending Slab as Revealed from Body-Wave Pulse-Width and Amplitude Analysis. Part II: A Seismological Investigation of the Subduction Mechanism of Aseismic Ridges
• Claudio, Antonia R. — The Acetylcholine Receptor and its Role in Induction of Experimental Autoimmune Myasthenia Gravis
• Cohen, Linda Rachel — Essays on the Economics of Licensing Nuclear Power Plants
• Conrad, Susan Ellen — I. Sequence Organization of Drosophila melanogaster 5S rRNA and 4S RNA Genes. II. In Vitro Studies on Replication of Plasmid DNAs
• Cooper, Michael Lee — Studies in the Visual System of the Cat. I. The Retinothalamic Pathway in Normal and Siamese Cats. II. The Vertical Horopter
• Cordova, France Anne-Dominic de — X-Ray Observations of Dwarf Novae
• Darcey, Terrance Michael — Methods for Localization of Electrical Sources in the Human Brain and Applications to the Visual System
• Dobrovolskis, Anthony Robert — The Rotation of Venus: Part I. Atmospheric Tides. Part II. Obliquity and Evolution
• Dooley, David Marlin — Spectroscopic and Magnetic Studies of the Coordination Environment and Electronic Structure of Copper Sites in Blue Copper Oxidases
• Dvorak, John Joseph — Analysis of Small Scale Lunar Gravity Anomalies: Implications for Crater Formation and Crustal History
• Ellerbroek, Brent Lee — Three Theorems of Paley and Wiener for Locally Compact Abelian Groups
• Everson, Joel Earl — Regional Variations in the Lead Isotopic Characteristics of Late Cenozoic Basalts from the Southwestern United States
• Fokas, Athanassios S. — Invariants, Lie-Bäcklund Operators and Bäcklund Transformations
• Fox, George — Charge Symmetry in ¹³N and ¹³C: a Coupled-Channel Model
• Furst, Marian Judith — The Use of Boron Concentrations in Fossil Materials as a Paleosalinity Indicator
• Gartrell, Gregory Jr. — Studies on the Mixing in a Density-Stratified Shear Flow
• Gelbard, Fred — The General Dynamic Equation for Aerosols
• Goring, Derek Garard — Tsunamis -- The Propagation of Long Waves onto a Shelf
• Griffith, Joseph Edward — Sputtering of Insulators in the Electronic Stopping Region
• Gromet, L. Peter — Rare Earths Abundances and Fractionations and their Implications for Batholithic Petrogenesis in the Peninsular Ranges Batholith, California, USA, and Baja California, Mexico
• Grossman, William Mark — Combustion of CS₂/O₂ in a laminar mixing layer and processes in the CO chemical laser
• Hagan, Patrick Shawn — The Stability of Traveling Wave Solutions of Parabolic Equations
• Harding, Lawrence Brook — Ab Initio Studies of Excited States and Reactions of Organic Molecules
• Hartman, Steward Russell — Observations of 1-6 MeV Jovian Electrons at 1 AU and a Study of Their Propogation
• Heaton, Thomas Harrison — Generalized Ray Models of Strong Ground Motion
• Hill, Alvin Joseph — Investigations of "Spatial" Firing in Dorsal Hippocampus of the Rat
• Hoffman, Elizabeth — Essays in Optimal Resource Allocation under Uncertainty with Capacity Constraints
• Hong, Chi-Shain — New Optical Waveguide Devices Using Periodic and Chirped Surface Corrugations and Optical Waves in Periodic Layered Structures
• Houle, Frances Anne — Studies of Alkyl Free Radicals and Reaction Mechanisms by Photoelectron Spectroscopy
• Hubbard, Bruce D. — Biochemical Studies on the 10 nm Filaments of Avian Muscle
• Hwang, David Li-Shui Quek — Propagation of the Fast Magnetosonic Wave in a Tokamak Plasma
• Johnson, Carl Edward — I. CEDAR - An Approach to the Computer Automation of Short Period Local Seismic Networks. II. Seismotectonics of the Imperial Valley of Southern California
• Johnson, Gilbert Collier — Approaches to the Elucidation of the Nature of 1,4-Dehyrobenzene
• Jones, Carol Ruth — The Syntheses and Thermal Decompositions of Six-Membered Cyclic Diacyl Peroxides
• Jones, William Davidson, II — Reactivity Patterns of Transition Metal Hydrides and Alkyls
• Koval, Carl Anthony — Synthesis, Electrochemistry, and Physical Studies of Graphite Electrodes with Chemically Modified surfaces and Copper Complexes with Macrocyclic Ligands
• Kuehne, Donald L. — Selective Transport of Sulfur Dioxide through Polymer Membranes
• Kushner, Mark Jay — Electronic and Kinetic Processes in the Cu/CuCl Double Pulse Laser
• Kwoh, Daniel S. W. — I. An Attempt to Produce both Thick and Thinned Flowing Superfluid Films. II. A Study of the Feasibility of Verifying Lifshitz's Theory of Van Der Waals Force for a Metallic Surface. III. The Electrohydrodynamic Instability of the Super-Thick Helium Film
• LaBonte, Barry James — Studies of Chromospheric Activity Observed in Hα and D₃
• Larkin, Ross Martin — Photopic Rapid Adaptation in the Electroretinogram: a White Noise Analysis
• Lee, Tom Kwan-Yau — Microeconomic Foundations of Research and Development
• Levin, Deborah Ann — Ab Initio Calculations of Processes in Low Energy Electron-Molecule Scattering
• Liau, Zong-Long — Ion Bombardment Effects on Material Compositions: Preferential Sputtering and Atomic Mixing
• Loh, Elwyn Yuan — Amino Acid Sequence Studies of Immunoglobulins: Implications for the Storage, Processing, and Expression of Genetic Information
• Lowry, Michael Murdock — A Quest for Neutral-Current-Enhanced Parity Mixing in ¹⁸F
• Lyon, Stephen Aplin — Optical Properties of Excited Silicon and Germanium at Low Temperatures
• MacNeal, Bruce Edward — Horizontal Bloch Line Motion in Magnetic Bubble Materials
• Mason, Alfred Barr — Some Observations on the Random Response of Linear and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
• Mellman, George Robert — A Method for Waveform Inversion of Body-Wave Seismograms
• Moore, Kevin William — The Mechanism of Action of Adenosylcobalamin-Dependent Diol Dehydratase. I. Glycerol and other Substrate Analogs as Substrates and Inactivators of Diol Dehydratase: Kinetics, Stereospecificity, and Mechanism. II. Hydrogen Transfer in the Inactivation of Diol Dehydratase by Glycerol. III. Hydrogen Transfer in Catalysis by Diol Dehydratase
• Nicholson, Philip David — 1. Tidal Synchronization of the Rotation of Early Main Sequence Stars in Close Binaries. 2. The Rings of Uranus: Results of the 1978 April 10 Occultation. 3. On the Resonance Theory of the Rings of Uranus
• Nicol, Ann Tryon — Solid States NMR Studies of Metal Hydrides
• Novitski, Charles Edward — Aspects of Regulation of Mitochondrial DNA Replication and Transcription in Mammalian Cells
• Oey, Nicolaus Kiam Thian — Leading Edge Flutter of a Supercavitating Hydrofoil
• Olafson, Barry Duane — A Molecular Description of Oxygen Binding to Hemoglobin
• Orlowski, Thomas Edward — New Techniques in Coherent Optical Spectroscopy: Optical Dephasing and Radiationless Processes in Molecules
• Osbourn, Gordon Cecil — Theoretical Studies of Bound Exciton Decay and of Transport across Semiconductor Interfaces
• Pankow, James Frederick — The Dissolution Rates and Mechanisms of Tetragonal Ferrous Sulfide (Mackinawite) in Anoxic Aqueous Systems
• Parker, Richard Carl — I. Methods for Restriction Endonuclease Studies of DNA Structure. II. Restriction Endonucleolytic Characterization of Animal Mitochondrial DNAs and Human Globin Genes
• Petersen, Stephen Vaughn — CARTAM : the Cartesian Access Method for Data Structures with n-Dimensional Keys
• Pollard, David — Barotropic and Baroclinic Instabilities in Jupiter's Zonal Flow
• Potter, Russell Marsh — The Tetravalent Manganese Oxides: Clarification of their Structural Variations and Relationships and Characterization of their Occurrence in the Terrestrial Weathering Environment as Desert Varnish and other Manganese Oxide Concentrations
• Powers, Robert Lewis — Iontophoretic Studies of Visual Neurons in Drosophila melanogaster
• Presti, David Eugene — Studies of the Blue Light Receptor in Phycomyces
• Rial M., José Antonio — I. The Caracas, Venezuela Earthquake of 1967: A Multiple Source Event. II. Seismic Waves at the Epicenter's Antipode
• Roberts, Daryl Lynn — Sulfur Dioxide Transport through Aqueous Solutions
• Romney, Jonathan Daniel MacLeish — Fine-Scale Structure of the Neutral Hydrogen Absorption in NGC1275
• Russell, William A. — Studies of Calcium Isotope Fractionation Found in Nature and Produced during Ion Sputtering
• Sadhal, Satwindar Singh — Analysis of Heat Transfer in Several Media
• Savaş, Ömer — Some Measurements in Synthetic Turbulent Boundary Layers
• Schulman, Joel Nathan — Electronic Structure of AlAs/GaAs and CdTe/HgTe Superlattices and Interfaces
• Shapiro, Helene Marian — Unitary Block Diagonalization and the Characteristic Polynomial of a Pencil Generated by Hermitian Matrices
• Shure, Mavis — I. Studies of Closed Circular DNA : Physical and Biological Implications of Heterogeneity in the Topological Winding Number, α. II. The Structure of Virion SV40 DNA in Situ Examined by Chemical Modification with Dimethylsulfate
• Simpson, Henry Clark — Periodic Solutions of Integro-Differential Equations Which Arise in Population Dynamics
• Siskind, Eric Jonathan — Production of the Ψ(3100) in 400 GeV Proton - Iron Interactions
• Slutz, Stephen Avery — Three Problems in Astrophysical Dynamics
• Smith, Stephen Pritchard — Studies of Noble Gases in Meteorites and in the Earth
• Spitzer, Matthew Laurence — Axiomatic Analysis of Legal/Institutional Issues
• Stumph, William Edward — Gene Enrichment Using Antibodies to DNA/RNA Hybrids: Mapping the Ribosomal DNA of Slime Mold and Rat
• Thomas, Glenn E. — The Chemisorption of Carbon Monoxide, Oxygen and Nitric Oxide on the Ruthenium (001) Surface
• Tyler, David Ralph — The Photochemistry and Electronic Structures of Metal Carbonyl Cluster Complexes
• Van Alstine, David Ralph — Apparent Polar Wandering with Respect to North America Since the Late Precambrian
• Vinkler, Aharon P. — Optimal Controller Design Methods for linear Systems with Uncertain Parameters: Development, Evaluation and Comparison
• Wang, Keh-Chung — Experimental Determination of the Relativistic Fine-Structure Splitting in a Pionic Atom and Dependence of K X-Ray Energy upon the Mode of Excitation
• Weller, Martha Carroll Riherd — The Solar System Boron Abundance: a Measurement of Boron Concentration in Carbonaceous Chondritic Meteorites
• Williams, Roger Macauley — Crystallographic Order and Disorder in Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductors
• Wise, Jack LeRoy, III — Experimental Investigation of First- and Second-Sound Shock Waves in liquid Helium II
• Wong Wooi Yee, Vincent Sydney — Computational Structures for Extracting Edge Features from Digital Images for Real-Time Control Applications
• Woodin, Richard Lawrence — Ion Cyclotron Resonance Studies of Vibrationally Excited Ions. I. Low Intensity Multiphoton Dissociation of Gas Phase Ions Using CW CO₂ Laser Radiation. II. Infrared Radiative Stabilization of Energized Species in the Gas Phase
• Yortsos, Yanis Christos — Analytical Modelling of Oil Recovery by Steam Injection
• Young, Peter John — Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei
• Zachos, Cosmas K. — Extended Supergravity with a Gauged Central Charge
• Zyskind, John Lehrer — Competition Effects in Charged Particle Induced Reactions